diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSymlinkHdfs.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSymlinkHdfs.java
index 042431e2a6c..6bab4af8ad5 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSymlinkHdfs.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/TestSymlinkHdfs.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.permission.FsPermission;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSConfigKeys;
@@ -99,6 +100,7 @@ public static void afterClassTeardown() throws Exception {
     if (cluster != null) {
       cluster.shutdown();
     }
+    IOUtils.closeQuietly(webhdfs);
   }
 
   @Test(timeout=10000)